Attentive Medicine with Dr. Fatou Mbow

✅ English 🌊 The Number That Dulls the Living I have always had an instinctive mistrust of numbers. They promise logic, but at the cost of a disconnection from the real. Being “good at maths” was supposed to mean something – yet among the “math people” I have met, I have never seen a clarity of goodness. Logic, yes. But nothing that illuminates presence, feeling, emotion, illness, healing. Nothing that illuminates life. A friend once worried that her daughter “didn’t see numbers.” Medicine even gave her a pathology for it: dyscalculia. A wound to love – of self or of another – in the name of functional convention. I understood that child. Numbers have always seemed poor to me, commercial, disrespectful. Then I heard Sven Kull, speaking with  @anneke.lucas  recount that in the organisation of torture where he found himself as a child, the first reduction imposed on him was to become a number. A number instead of a being. As if human history had never ceased to devalue the...

Ce qui “voit” la pensée n’est pas l’œil. Ce qui “entend” la pensée n’est pas l’oreille. Alors qui témoigne de la pensée – qui l’écoute, qui l’observe ? Il semble que ce soit la totalité de la mémoire – l’ensemble du savoir – dont chaque pensée croit être séparée. #DrFatouMbow #attentivemedicine #consciencehumaine #philosophiedelesprit #temoindelapensée #inquiry #mémoire #conscience  

What sees thought is not the eye. What hears thought is not the ear. So what is the observer, the listener, the witness of thought? It seems to be the totality of memory – the whole of knowledge – from which each thought believes it is separate.